Lovely Little Lancia

I've got to admit to struggling a bit with this one. Lots of head scratching just following the painting instructions in the manual!
Parts that the brush wouldn't reach, like the black areas just below the aux lights, took some creative thinking.
Wheelbase shortened by 2.5mm and the body lowered at the rear and raised at the front. Wheels stripped of chrome and painted
a more convincing shade of aluminium.

Thanks guys. @CAVALIERSRI, isn't it annoying that we have to do such a thing? Even worse, mine sits dead in the middle
at -2.5mm on the left side, but is now ever so slightly too short on the right side. Maybe it's a '70's thing.

Thanks NJM. -2.5mm is perfect on the left hand side, but the right hand side needs closer to -1.7mm. I didn't fancy one side being longer than the other, so just went with -2.5mm both sides. It looks ok in the flesh. The slight fish-eye effect from the lens makes it look worse than it is in the pics.

I've added a pic of the rear arms. The large silver spacer is a Tamiya 2mm spacer, the smaller one a Tamiya 0.5mm shim. As you can see they are spaced the same, it's just that something else (possibly the body) isn't quite square. The upper arms needed spacing out too, as did the rear bumper.

11-Jul-2018

Lovley car! I just bought a NIB one. Dont know what to do with it yet.

11-Jul-2018

Nice car!! I justbought a NIB one, but dont know what to do with it yet.

Thanks for the kind words guys I'm glad it makes you want to build one PININY. Matteo is building one on his youtube channel - just a heads up for anyone that doesn't yet know. Might be cool to build along with him.

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